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Impact of Makkalai thedi Maruthuvam scheme
March 18 , 2024
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- The Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam (MTM), a scheme to deliver medical care at the doorsteps of people, has reached out to the most vulnerable groups, such as women in rural areas and Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe categories.
- While diabetes and hypertension were the most widely covered the Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) under MTM, cancer screening coverage was extremely low, it found.
- Among the study participants, 4,155 (60%) were from rural areas and 2,701 (40%) from urban areas.
- Nearly 78.84% of the study participants were aware of MTM, and 73% had been visited by Women Health Volunteers (WHV).
- In screening for hypertension, 81.25% of the study population had been screened for hypertension, and among them 93.8% were screened in the last year.
- Among those screened in the last year, 73.6% were screened through MTM.
- It also found that a higher proportion of women (82.6%) were screened compared to men (79%), with the screening through MTM in the last year also being higher in women (75.1% versus 71.2%).
- Screening through MTM for hypertension was 61.5% in urban areas compared to 82.9% in rural areas.
- Only four per cent of survey participants had ever undergone screening for oral cancer.
- Mere 11.06% of women screened for cervical cancer and 14.24% of women for breast cancer.
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